Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate

Obama: ‘I certainly have not contributed to’ divisive political climate | The American Mirror
"President Obama provided an interesting perspective on the widening rift in American politics Thursday during a presidential news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The lame-duck Obama said he personally has “not contributed to” the increasingly partisan climate in Washington and America in general during his tenure, but rather it’s those swarmy Republicans and conservative media outlets that are really to blame.
...The president apparently came to the realization that maybe he hasn’t done all he can to bring people together, but he’s definitely not at all to blame for dividing the country.
“I do all kinds of soul searching in terms of, are there things that I can do better to make sure that we are unifying the country,” Obama said, “but I also have to say … objectively it’s fair to say that the Republican political elites and many information outlets, social media and news stations, talk radio, television stations have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed, that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal, that maximalist, absolutist positions on issues are politically advantageous, that there’s a ‘them’ out there and an ‘us’ and ‘them’ are the folks who are causing whatever the problems you’re experiencing and the tone of that politics, which I certainly have not contributed to.”...